Bears O-line shuffling through trouble

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The Bears offensive line may be closing in on some sort of dubious record. Last year the group had five different iterations (including in-game changes) in the first seven games. This year there were different starting lineups in each of the first three games. The same fiveJMarcus Webb, Chris Williams, Roberto Garza, Chris Spencer, Frank Omiyalestarted game four.

But then Spencer fractured his right hand and Lance Louis entered. Thats four lines. Omiyale was foundering and, with Spencer returning in the second half, Louis went to right tackle. Five lines in four games.

Time for a few night moves from Jay Cutler. That hasnt always been easy for the Bears quarterback to accomplish.

The Bears have lost all four of their Sunday night games behind Cutler in addition to a Thursday Night Football debacle in San Francisco when Cutler threw five interceptions. A win at Miami last year stands as the lonely W but in none of those six night games did Cutler post a passer rating higher than 79.6 and three were below 50.

Given that the Bears have two Sunday night NFC North games scheduled at this point (Oct. 16 vs. Minnesota, Dec. 25 at Green Bay), this Sabbath issue needs to be worked out in the interest of division chances.

But the Detroit Lions are a Monday night situation, an altogether different Cutler story.

Not what you want to hear...

None other than Jerry Rice, the greatest wide receiver in NFL history, has pronounced Detroit wideout Calvin Johnson unstoppable. Rice, on ESPNs Cold Hard Facts Friday morning, said that Charles Tillman had as good a chance of matching up with Johnson aka Megatron, but I think Megatron will be unstoppable.

The Detroit defense is eighth in points allowed this season at 19.0 per game. Not good enough. Honestly in my opinion, said defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, weve played very mediocre.

John "Moon" Mullin is CSNChicago.com's Bears Insider and appears regularly on Bears Postgame Live and Chicago Tribune Live. Follow Moon on Twitter for up-to-the-minute Bears information.

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